The help dashboard

One of the biggest problems recently is agents, in a way that they are getting more cases than expected and more than they can easily cope with.

So, in a rather bizarre move, giffgaff decided to put an 'agent responses' dashboard on the 'my giffgaff' page recently, and to make it worse, they even include a dedicated direct 'ask an agent' link.....WHY! It doesn't stop there, the 'my giffgaff' page doesn't even include an 'ask the community' link or any mention of the community at all on this page. So where is the logic in this, it simpily and wrongly promotes asking an agent as a first port of call for help.

So...

Heres my idea:

The help dashboard,

to replace the current 'agent responses' dashboard on the 'my giffgaff' page. It would have the following features:

A dedicated and direct ask the community link, leading to the immediate ask a question page.

The dedicated ask the community link will be prioritised, put in a grey button above any other port of help, including being above 'asking an agent'.

A link to a page which explains what giffgaff agents can do, and why asking giffgaff agents should be for certain 'account' related issues ONLY. This page will then link to the 'ask an agent' link, acting as a filter to reduce the number of cases raised that do not need to be raised with agents.

It will not include a direct link to ask an agent.

A dedicated direct link to the Help tab.

Easy access to your inbox's. with a dedicated area for your community private message inbox and agent responses inbox.

The logic:

To reduce the number of agent related cases, which do not need to be asked to an agent.

To improve the knowledge and understanding of what giffgaff agents are there for.

To motivate people to ask the community FIRST, before anything else.

To highlight and motivate the use of the Help tab as an easy resource.

To prioritise help options in a relevant order of importance. Asking the community, going to the help pages and THEN asking an agent if necessary.

To give easy access to both giffgaff inbox's, especially to highlight the agent inbox (this is already a feature).

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